Paul Alexander

Bitter Crop (eBook, ePUB)

The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday's Last Year

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Bitter Crop is an unconventional portrait of arguably America's most eminent jazz singer. Acclaimed biographer Paul Alexander shrewdly focuses on the last year of her life - with relevant flashbacks to provide context - to evoke and examine the persistent magnificence of Holiday's artistry when it was supposed to have declined, in the wake of her drug abuse, relationships with violent men, and run-ins with the law. During her lifetime and after her death, Billie Holiday was often depicted as a down-on-her-luck junkie severely lacking in self-esteem. Relying on interviews with people who knew her and new material unearthed in private collections and institutional archives, Bitter Crop limns Holiday as a powerful, ambitious woman who overcame her flaws to triumph as a vital figure of American popular music.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Severn House
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781837262427
• Artikelnr.: 69887786

Autorenporträt

Paul Alexander